My Steemit Introduction! Our Homesteading Journey to Share and Teach!
I grew up in a homesteading family and have been on many life paths since then. Getting back to my roots has been a goal ever since leaving home. In the past 7 years, I am closer to where I want to be than ever. We grow and preserve most of our vegetables, have chickens and ducks for eggs and sometimes meat, and make most of our food from scratch. We have a beautiful herd of dairy goats to provide all our dairy needs.
I have been a Professional Horticulturist off and on for 18 years, I am also a Master Gardener, a Certified Landscape Professional in addition to several Pest and Permaculture credentials as well. I am currently working on my Journeyman Farmer Certification. I have been full time managing our Farmstead for 2 years now giving more attention to living off the land in a sustainable, organic way.
We chose this lifestyle. It makes us feel good. We live close to the earth and know our food comes from a clean, environmentally friendly, humane, healthy and affordable source. I have a passion for all of this and want to share it with others. So many people are curious about this way of life and want to learn more and my hope is that this will help them on their path and we can enjoy this journey together as a community. Feel free to contact me if you need any more information.
I created a short video introducing myself to Steemit. Please take a moment to watch. We have a YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRFL-VU0wM9JZDCulQPDp4g ) and a Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/PassionatePlants/ ) as well as Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/wholesomeroots/ ), Pinterest, Google+, and Twitter.
Please FOLLOW, Upvote, Resteem and all that other jargon I don't really know yet on Steemit, LOL!
Thanks for reading and Watching!
Peace and Love,
Rose @WholesomeRoots
Welcome
Welcome to Steem.com
Welcome! I am following you! I also homestead, but on a smaller scale, and mostly fruit trees!
Welcome to Steemit, have fun with it.
Followed. Upvoted.
Follow me back guys, I will do the same 😘
Hello and welcome to steemit! I am new here as well, but I am sure you will find everyone is extremely friendly and full of information. I to am into various aspects of homesteading, so I am looking forward to your future posts. Best of luck!
thank you!
Wow! Congratulations on being where you want to be! Not many people can say that! It's amazing what you've done in two years!
We are beginner Homesteaders and I too have my Permaculture certificate!
Welcome to Steemit, I'm definitely in a be following to learn from you!
Glad to have you here! Thanks for leaving a comment too! It is good to get to know some people on here!
Rose - what a very well done post! Welcome to steemit, so glad you came on over and I hope you love it as much as I do :D
I really couldn't have figured it out this far without your help! Thank you!
<3 :D
Hi and welcome. I have been around for less than a week and I am learning so much and hope to learn more from you too.
One question about your garden. It seems to have no fences. How do you keep the animals out, especially chickens?
Thank you. I can relate to it all except we have no close neighbors.
I tried cayenne pepper as a deterrent but dropped a clump out of the container and the chicken began to peck at it and ate the whole thing! She was kind of subdued for a few days after that.
I have lots of chicken stories about what pests they are.
We yell and wave our arms and yell some more when we see predators in the sky or coming out of the woods but all but one of our chicks are gone. At least someone got a good meal.
This spring I put a lot of effort into building a high fence around the garden and she just flies over it and then can't get out.
Unfortunately we live on a hillside and a chicken tractor would never work. Great idea though.
I could never keep them out of garden... sorry!
We can't free range our chickens unfortunately. W have them in chicken tractors that we move every day. I have a video on why if you are interested.
Welcome to Steemit, fellow Homesteader! I'm sure you'll figure things out quickly. If you need any help just hit us up and we'll do our best. Feel free to reply to this comment (even later down the road) as you have questions. If I can help, I most certainly will!
Probably the best tip to start off with is to not fall into the follow begging role of "follow me and I'll follow back". It's generally frowned upon and tends to dilute the quality of posts on Steemit.
Check out SteemDB for some blog insights. Go to SteemDB.com/ with your username at the end. For example your link would be: https://steemdb.com/@wholesomeroots It gives you insights along the lines of YouTube's analytics. Steemd.com is another useful tool.
Otherwise, some helpful tags we Homesteaders try to use are: Homesteading, Prepping, and Gardening as they apply to our posts.
Again, welcome to your new favorite place!
Wow, Thank you so much! This is very helpful! I hope to figure things out soon. On question I have right now is, is there a wat to edit a post!? or to have one in draft format to work on more later? I have two little kids and get interupted often, lol.
Once posted, things that can be edited: text, non-primary categories, and you can remove image links. Things that cannot be edited: adding photos, changing the title.
Steemit auto-saves drafts of posts to your browser, but this does not follow you from computer to computer. Meaning what you write at work, will not show up at home.
Personally, I use Notepad or Evernote for my drafts. I don't worry about images or formatting, but just get the text down and work on proofing it from there until I can sit down and put it into Steemit at once.
Correction: You can change the post title.
Thank you!
Welcome to Steemit! Sounds like you're going to have some pretty interesting posts to share. Looking forward to reading/watching them.
Thank you!